Thank you so much for answering my question. That was what I needed to know.

Yes, it may be a good idea from time to time, to upgrade also the mainboard, CPU and RAM.
I have recently replaced my workstation with a newer, more silent one which helped in many ways.

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I'm contemplating the 3090, as I'm really running into VRAM limitations with my 1080 ti. It's expensive, but less so than the Tesla RTX.

I will probably spec and build a new system, which will be fun...:w00t: 

EDIT: I hadn't seen the 3070 Ti, so that might be an option too.

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The 3070Ti will be an interesting option, thanks.
I was just hoping that there would be a card between the 3080 and 3090.
Here is an interesting video that compares it with the officially announced cards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC_jjQxubTs

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The 16 GB is your system RAM. What we are looking for is Video RAM or VRAM, which is the memory on your graphics card.

Your card is a GTX 1050, which has only 2 GB of VRAM. The info screen will tell you how much you have total and how much you are using.

Since you only have 2 GB and you are using 2 GB, the card is maxed out. iClone will then try using system RAM, but that is a slow process. So even though you have 16 GB of system RAM, the card is the bottleneck.

EDIT: 3dtester beat me to it...

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There you have it. The 1050 has only 2 GB of VRAM.
Your system has 16 GB RAM but that doesn't help you since it can't be used for 3D realtime rendering.

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Ok, there is the trend to consume more and more VRAM.
I also experience that 11 GB is not enough any more.
With a few CC3+ characters which without any problem double their file size.
Sure, it can be handled with a few settings to reduce realtime quality.
But it brings my system to its limits a lot easier now.

The 3090 is an affordable Quadro RTX but for creators.
Very good decision of NVIDIA. I think it will pay off.

Unfortunately the options are very limited now.

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Thank you for your reply. I always keep that showing so I know how much video I am using. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 with 16 gigs of RAM; how do I allocate more ram to iClone? iClone is only using 2 gigs out of 16.

Thank you.

what is your processor Do you think you need to change yourprocessor to use the RAM capacity well? Do you think it makes a bottleneck?

I'm maxing out my 1080ti in pretty much every scene...I'd look towards getting something with more ram like 3070TI 16GB, or 3090, 24GB

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Intel® Core™ i7-7820X Processor (8x 4.30GHz/11MB L3 Cache)
Corsair Hydro Series H115i 280mm
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32 GB DDR4-3200 GSKILL Ripjaws V Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti - 11GB - EVGA FTW3